Then again, kitsch and bad taste are not the same. Kitsch is always in bad taste, but the reverse is not true. To the artist, extreme bad taste is a baring of the teeth. Anything less than extreme bad taste is gratuitous, however, and what is gratuitous is always kitsch.

If potential is actualised, it does not matter that it was not actualised by you.

Classicism is kitsch. The instincts are only revealed through the overthrow of past practice.

Tax minimization, properly understood, is the arrangement of one's affairs so as to minimize time spent thinking about tax.

I appreciate that you have mastered prosody, that you can stetch your hand over an octave and two notes, that you know how to arrange strings beautifully. You have never blackened your body with pitch and crawkled through the bracken on your belly at night, however, and it really shows.

Do not subscribe to the upside-down world: they cannot be enlightened if they say they have it. Stand tall on your own two proud feet. If you must learn how it is done, examine a chair.

You may thank the ditch for providing the opportunity to climb so high, though the truth is that the ditch doesn't care for your welfare, nor the welfare of anything sentient, and you were not singled out to learn this particular lesson. You may credit mere geometry for life's lessons, but next time around you will blame the same mute structure for your inevitable fall.

'Pointless grandeur' - is there any other kind?